After winning 52.9% of the vote in 2008, Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States on Jan. 20, 2009, becoming our nation’s first black president. He was historically re-elected for a second term in November 2012.

Out of the 2,043 people who appear on the 2017 Forbes list of billionaires, only three are African-American: Oprah Winfrey, Robert Smith and Michael Jordan. But before any of them appeared on the list, Robert L. Johnson, 75, became the first African-American billionaire in 2001 thanks to the sale of his cable station Black Entertainment […]